In 2007 Egypt witnessed an unprecedented level of labor unrest as workers from textile factories to public transport to tax collectors went on strike, mainly over low wages and poor working conditions.

The mass strikes of September 2011 paralysed the government and the military
council and opened up the road to the crisis of November. The independent unions
and strike committees which led these strikes are part of what is now probably
the biggest social movement in strikes (with the possible exception of the Muslim
Brotherhood), and certainly the biggest organised movement with real roots in
the everyday struggles of the poor

Will organised workers move into the leadership of the mass revolutionary
movement? This article argues that two conditions for this happening have
already been met: the workers’ movement has begun to gain enough mastery over
its constituent parts to be able to use its social power in battle with the
state, while the demands that are now being raised by this movement cannot be
satisfied within the limits of neoliberal capitalism in the context of
intensifying economic crisis at a local and global level.

The EOHR suddenly remembered there are workers in Egypt. Mabrouk. The strike wave is dictating a change in the public political discourse for everyone: the govt, civil society, and even the radical left.

The Facebook activists are calling on the "Free Workers of Egypt" to strike on 6 April.. Well, good luck to you.. It's not gonna happen.. You have to have activists on the ground to organize this, not in the cyberspace..

As a simple tribute on International Women's Day, here's a few pics from some of the social and political struggles that took part in Egypt during the last couple of years, where women often played central roles and sometimes proved to be more militant than the men

There's a mistake in this report and the coverage of the Real Estate tax officers strike. The report is saying the strike was resumed yesterday. Actually the strike was never suspended. But what was resumed yesterday is the open-ended sit-in

Now Egyptian bloggers are working around the clock to tell the world about the workers' revolt that is shaking their country, as thousands rally for a better life. They are at the frontline of unrest, which has so far left five people dead, scores injured and an undetermined number of online activists, organisers, politicians and mere spectators behind bars.
Their coverage comes in the form of blog posts, YouTube videos, Twitter feeds, Flickr shots, Facebook messages and all other online tools they can get their hands on. The battle continues.